{"id":143121,"date":"2026-03-19T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143121\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:25:06","slug":"students-test-entrepreneurial-skills-at-university-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143121\/","title":{"rendered":"Students test entrepreneurial skills at University of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8th graders from Old Forge Junior\/Senior High honed their entrepreneurial skills at the University of Scranton on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Students in Lackawanna County gained a deeper understanding of innovation on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Scranton hosted 8th graders from Old Forge Junior\/Senior High School to expand upon their entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n<p>The students took a tour of the Idea Center and then worked in teams to design and develop small business ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am hoping to learn how to put my ideas out in the world and not to be nervous during interviews or a pitch,&#8221; said Ansel Perniciaro.<\/p>\n<p>The students later presented their ideas to their classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8th graders from Old Forge Junior\/Senior High honed their entrepreneurial skills at the University of Scranton on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-143121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}